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'True Blood' star Joe Manganiello says he would go ugly on command

Joe Manganiello is devoted to his craft, so don't be fooled by his werewolf bod on "True Blood." He says he'd go from beefcake to hamburger in a heartbeat.

"If Alcide was described as weighing 300 pounds with a comb-over and missing his front teeth, that's what I would look like," he said in a recent interview.

Good luck with that. Manganiello is back in top form for the fourth season of the HBO vampire show, in which he plays the tortured lupine Alcide Herveaux. Last fall, however, he was trying Superman's cape on for size.